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Dell latitude 120l CD boot problem

Hi i'vegot a problem with my dell laptop i cant load xp so i am trying to reinstall it by booting the laptop from the disc, but the problem is that it wont boot, i've also tried to change the boot sequence so that it is to boot from the cd first but that still doesn't work it continually says that there are no bootable devices--strike f1 to retry boot, f2 for setup utility. no matter how many times i press f1 the same keeps coming up. please help.

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  • berniem180 May 11, 2010

    Strike the F2 key and go into setup. scroll to the System information and see if the drives are being recognized by the system board.

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Hmm,I've seen this before & unfortunately I think the cd drive went poop.

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